Part of Microsoft's .NET strategy, Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) enables an application program written in any of several commonly-used programming languages to be run on any operating system using a common runtime program rather than a ... Continue Reading

SOA with .NET & Windows Azure: Realizing Service-Orientation with the Microsoft Platform presents readers with a hands-on review of key issues in applying SOA techniques on the .NET platform. This is another in the series of Prentice Hall ... Continue Reading

Light-weight architectures continue to gain currency, even on the heels of Microsoft's massive .NET framework effort. Two authors say the small-footprint Rails framework can provide more of an "an architecture out-of-the-box" for some Web ... Continue Reading

Manage Microsoft .NET Web services

Today, when developers want to create a new way to describe a domain, such as all of the attributes of a contact, they use XML, which forces the developer to tolerate a lot of angle brackets. The new MGrammar (Mg) from Microsoft promises an ... Continue Reading

Microsoft's Dino Chiesa offers up a look inside Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and its uses as a Web services stack. He also discusses upcoming REST and Ajax support in .NET 3.5. Continue Reading

Microsoft's decision to stand apart from the rest of the SOA crowd has led to questions of whether it is build systems to deliver enterprise-level service-orientation or tools to deliver departmental Web services. Continue Reading